NY Times: “The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It” (Decentralized Web Summit)

From The NY Times:

Twenty-seven years ago, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web as a way for scientists to easily find information. It has since become the world’s most powerful medium for knowledge, communications and commerce — but that doesn’t mean Mr. Berners-Lee is happy with all of the consequences.
“It controls what people see, creates mechanisms for how people interact,” he said of the modern day web. “It’s been great, but spying, blocking sites, repurposing people’s content, taking you to the wrong websites — that completely undermines the spirit of helping people create.”
So on Tuesday [and Wed], Mr. Berners-Lee gathered in San Francisco with other top computer scientists — including Brewster Kahle, head of the nonprofit Internet Archive and an internet activist — to discuss a new phase for the web.

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See Also: Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Distributed Web (via Brewster Kahle)
Video: Brewster Kahle Speaks at Berkeley Information School (March 2016)

and More From Brewster and Jeffery McKie-Mason (via Berkeley School of Information; March 2016)

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